jpeg export quality settings didn't work in version 7. Anyone knows if 7.2 fixed it?...more >>

Ive always wondered this, but never knew how to get it working. If i have two different swf files on one html page, can one interact with the other? For instance, can i have a button on swf#1 make an object on swf#2 change colors? Any help would be appreciated! ...more >>

hi im having problems with a flash template i am altering. for some reason when i add text to some movie clip symbols, the text is all blury. i use the same font and properties in other parts of the movie and its fine. i tried fixing this by making these text fields dynamic. this did fix ...more >>

I no longer receive email acknowledgement after sending emails to Macromedia. Not sure if my emails went through. Is there better way to reach Flash tech support on urgent issues? Do they answer phone calls? What's their time zone delta relative to New York time? (I hate to make a phone ...more >>

Hi, I want to make some animated characters. The kind of thing where a cartoon style character gets up clicks the button the user has just clicked on. My question is, how do I do this sort of animation ? I figured frame by frame editing would end up with a huge file size, so I was goin...more >>

Hi there. Can anyone help me with a very small problem -- the dynamic text in the middle of my swf is about twice as wide as it should be. To be more precise, the characters look short and fat. It only occurs with my embedded font, Lighos Light. I've tried it with many fonts, and they all ...more >>

Hi, I have a button on stage and I assigned it the following action on(release) { getURL("mailto:kgta@jhu.edu"); } Result : Nothing happens...no email client launched....complete silence :-( If I replace above getURL stmt. with getURL("http://www.google.com"); it works perfectly....more >>

Im trying to remove a movie clip on release of a button. i cant get it to werk i just need the code to get it to werk. It seems simple but it wont werk. This is my error message Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 1: Statement must appear within on handler dropbox1.removeMovi...more >>

i want to put a picture between my text lines in the scrollbar,how can i do that? ...more >>

folks....this feature doesn't seem to wanna work. i'm using MX. i created a simple dynamically loaded scroller where i load a .txt file externally. ...this works fine but when i select "render html" in the properties panel, then test movie....i don't see the format changes. for the txt fi...more >>

Hi everybody, I want to make an animation like the site above http://bedsupperclub.com/home.php do you know, what can be the best way to do that?? I really appreciatte your help. Martin...more >>

I am a C++ programmer. I make computer games and I am somewhat disappointed in our front end interface. I would like to use a program like flash to create the front-end and interface with it using C++. Can anyone tell me if this is possible? Can you access Flash variables from an external ...more >>

I want to make something that has a circular saw that the user could turn on and grab and move to cut off the top of somebody's head. Anybody have any suggestions on how to make a good looking spinning blade? Perhaps something you have made that spins close to that? Thanks Mathias ...more >>

Hello, We have designed a tutorial in Flash MX for educational purposes in our univeristy . Now towards the end of this tutorial, we want to present a small feedback form where the readers of this tutorial can type there name, department and any comments and this information should be subm...more >>

Is there a way to play Flash movies in Microsoft Powerpoint presentations ??? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Leo Kopel Data Systems Worldwide Inc. lkopel@dsw.net...more >>

How do I reset the pen or for that matter all the tools to their = defaults in flash mx 2004 Thanks in advance for any help...more >>

hiya! So I'm testing my site and I have one executive who downloads my fancy flash sniffer (the flash-sniffs-for-flash method that comes with flash dmx 2004), goes thru the whole process, only to get a browser message, "active x disallowed." What should I do? Tell him to change his sec...more >>

Hello ! I want to specify one line on my datagrid with rollOver effect but unless my mouse only with parameter (just to show one line in my datagrid) ex : myDatagrid.row23.showRoll (i dream but i think it's possible) If you have got some ideo .... Bye ! Zoollii ...more >>

I have an accountant on my network who screwed up his computer. When he goes to www.msn.com the car ad on the upper right hand side of the screen does not load. He gets an Iexplorer error report window. Iexplorer.exe generated an error. Module name urlmon.dll. Detail error code 0XC0000005. ...more >>

Hi, i made a movie that has a fish opening and closing his mouth eating another fish. for the larger fish i double clicked on iwhich brought me to "symbol" mode there i displayed three different pictures of the fish with his mouth in 3 different places giving me a open closing effect. i then ...more >>

I have a preload swf and an swi file. can anyone tel me what does the swi file do and how do i put it in to my movie fla Any info would be useful Thanks Gary...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to convert a .swf movie to .mpg or .avi but so far every program I've tried (Magic SWF2AVI, and others) puts the audio and video out of sync if the swf has a "play" button. Is there any programs that will do this in-sync or is there a program I can use to fix it myself? ...more >>

When I drag a swf into IE I am getting a popup to download the file instead of IE playing the file...Is there any way to set up IE to play the file similar to draging in a Word doc??...more >>

i want to take a picture (jpeg) of a car and make the tires spin like the car's moving, then i want to add a background that moves behind the car to simulate the car traveling. where should i start? i'm pretty new to flash, and have just the basics down - when it comes to graphics, i'm kinda...more >>

I am looking for someone to hire with a minimum of 4 yrs FLASH experience. The job location is Biloxi MS and is government related with the contract duration of a minimum of 5 years. Please send resume to jamie@sablich.com. ...more >>

I need to publish some prices in 4 different currencies, so updating those manually can be very time consuming, I thought in a flash that automatically converts those values to each currency. If that would be in real time taking the data from a server that would be better still. Is there so...more >>

I had to come to the forums to voice my opnion. I hope that in the next version of Flash Macromedia decides to make the width of all the menu such as the library, color mixer, color swatches & align all have the ability to collapse in width to the same width. Currently they shrink down to...more >>

I have a movie called "main" with 20 keyframes. In each keyframe on the maintimeline of "main" is a loadmovie command and a stop action. I also have a button on the maintimeline of "main" with the following code: on (press) { gotoAndPlay(_currentframe+1); } on (keyPress "<Right>") { got...more >>

Hi guys back to pick your brains again. I'm looking for tutorials elsewhere for this, but if you guys can help it would, as always, be appreciated. I have a movie with 5 scenes. (Scene1 - Scene5) At the last frame of each scene I would like to jump to one of the others at 'random'. ...more >>

I've been working on a project and recently closed down the computer at the end of the day. Next day when I tried to open it gives me the error, "There is not enought memory to open the scene. The file is not corrupt and may save safely saved. close all applications and try re-opening or use t...more >>

Hi, everyone I am working on Flash mx 2004. I put a "exit" button on my project use script : "on (release) { fscommand("quit", true); }". It works very well on my .swf file but not working on HTML. Somebody told me I have to use Java script, but I don't know how to script it. Please ...more >>

I'm working on a menu system, which links to html pages. I was wondering if it was possible to store all of the HREFs in an external file/s, that the flash could load in?...more >>

can anyone help me, i need to produce a shopping cart in flash, does anyone know how i can go about this, i need to be able to use worldpay with it. is it possible. any tutorials out there i can have a look at? or can i do it in dreamweaver and pull it into flash when live. ta in advance...more >>

Excuse ,i'm a newbye of this newsgroup, where can i find e very very good site for text effetcs examples? thank you LucaM ...more >>

Hi everyone I am using Macromedia Flash MX 2004. While I was working, suddenly something happened and the program stopped showing me the dragging aids that normally appear while dragging objects from place to place. it doesn't show me any indication of the current position of the object ...more >>

Ok, its like this, I am a real novice when it comes to macromedia flash as i've only just started using it....geeeez its complexed. Only using it to create a company and home web site, and thats it, as i'm not from a developer backgroupnd. Anyway, I have a template for my site which has a soun...more >>

Hi I've just formatted my machine, and am in the process of re-installing my software. When i come to install studio mx 2004 with flash pro the following text appears when it comes to the flash installer: "The contents of this file cannot be unpacked. The executable you are attempting to run...more >>

hi, any idea on running two exe files one after another via autorun.inf ? any help in that direction will be appreciated thank you ...more >>

Hi I'm trying to export a number of wav files from Flash using File/Export/Export Movie and selecting wav as the file type. This exports as one wav file. Is there any way to export as individual files? Thanks in advance Limes ...more >>

while using 2 sound object , is it possible to run it at the same time a1 = new Sound() a1.attachSound("") .. a2 = new Sound() a2.attachSound("") a1 object audio is lengthy. while playing it , in the middle, iam calling the a2 object , the result which i got is, when a2 starts a...more >>

Hi, I have develloped a website which is mostly generated by action script. I am loading data and attaching or duplicating mc to display each records. when the record number is below 7 it is fine but when even it goes over it starts acting very weird. Using wrong mc to maskes things even t...more >>

is it possible and if so how?...more >>

Hi, can anyone tell me how to show a (please wait page loading) bar to appear while waiting for a page to download. The flash 6 page is just under 300kb in size and on 56k moden speed takes a while to appear. Can anyone give me any tips of the simplist way to acheive this or any links th...more >>

Is there anyway to reuse power point slides and material in Flash without having to convert it to a swf or jpeg and doing load command in ActionScript. I have a great deal of powerpoint material I would like to reuse instead of having to redo Jim ...more >>

Guys, Could anybody make a slight mod to a logo swf that I have ? I no longer have flash on my machine and I just want to speed up an animation. I know its a bit cheeky, but it will only take you guys a second or too. I just wanted to speed up the initial animation to about 3 seconds, th...more >>

My company wants to test its products against older versions of the Flash Player plug-in for MS Internet Explorer. Can someone tell me where I can download installers for: Flash Player 4 Flash Player 5 Flash Player 6 Thanks Alfred ...more >>

Hi; I am hoping there is a simple answer to this. I have Flash MX 6.0. Is there a way to build a movie based on it just capturing my desktop and what I say into the mic for a period of time? I just want to create a video of using a program so just recording my desktop as I speak and us...more >>

Hi I'm new to flash development. I am looking to build a small application that allows the user to place objects on to a stage / canvas and then move them around also recording the movements once the user presses stop the objects go back to there original place. When the play button is presse...more >>

This may be a hard one... I've made a scrolling verticle text box and i've put the text for it straight into the flash code. Works fine. Now I want to edit the text in the code and put a 'paragraph return' in.... everytime I do it, the code changes and nothing works. What is the ...more >>

I'd like to create a small graphic that is "attached" to the mouse cursor and moves as the mouse moves. I don't really want to make a custom mouse cursor, I'd like to keep the system cursor but have the graphic appear (offset) with the arrow. It would act as sort of a moving "tool tip". ...more >>

Hi I have a simple 1 frame animation which contains an instance of a music button. The first frame of the animation contains this AS: stop(); stopAllSounds(); The music button MC contains two frames, in the first the AS for the button reads: on (press) { gotoAndPlay("sound"); } ...more >>

Hi Flashies, I have created a flash movie that links to an external text file and css file to show the text area component here: http://www.digitalmonkey.com.au/textscrolltext/text.swf I put a TextArea component in with this actionscript: myStyle.load("example.css"); TextHolder.st...more >>

What code will reverse the effects of stopAllSounds? Amy...more >>

I'm a little confused about streaming. If I set a song to begin about 40 frames into a movie, then set it to stream, with it loop on it's own untill the browser closes? If so will it effect file size to do it this way as opposed to specifying a loop amount? TIA Stargrrl ...more >>

I've had a search and can't find much on this Q. I've made a scollable verticle text area and have input the text ie: tt="HEADING HERE Then the rest like this so on and so forth..."; All works fine except I'm having trouble with creating parabraphs in the copy. I'd like to put in a f...more >>